Judd Nelson Quotes

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

There is too much hate in the world; too much hurt.

You must hurt, or be hurt.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

There are worse things than war.

What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

Force does not heal old wounds; it opens new ones.